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Example sentences for: corny

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During the mission briefing on the fateful day, Button was "cutting up and making his corny little jokes," just as he usually did.
The rhetoric may be modern, but the character is a cartoon anachronism, right down to his corny, drawn-out delivery, which clocks in at about five words per minute.
Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.
Made with a gee-whiz earnestness and simplicity that's so out of style it's refreshing" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Others are more wary of the movie's syrupy core: David Denby says the film is "borderline corny, but I was held by it; I was even moved by it" ( The New Yorker ), and David Edelstein in
"Flawless is so awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Critics call it corny, predictable, and packed with gay stereotypes.